Wan Qian plays Yao Wei, a strong woman in the workplace, in "Lady's Character". In an interview, Wan Qian said that as a female group drama, modern urban women of different ages in "Lady's Character" actively seek solutions to endless workplace and family problems, "They will bravely face work, actively embrace life, and face all problems with an optimistic attitude, which is also a kind of power we want to pass on to everyone through this drama." ”
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"Lady's Character" tells the reflection and exploration of women of different ages when facing family and career difficulties, and also expresses the support and healing between women. The three women in the play, respectively, correspond to unexpected pregnancy, Dink's husband cheating for many years, and being affected by parenting, which are all pain points for urban women today. Yao Wei, played by Wan Qian, has relied on her own ability to fight all the way to the position of commercial director, and she is fierce in her work, and she is both strict and righteous to her subordinates. In Wan Qian's view, Yao Wei gathers a lot of the advantages of modern workplace women, is the epitome of urban women in the age of 30+, this character is real and cute, always full of hard work and enthusiasm for work and life, dare to fight hard and delicate, Yao Wei in the workplace to do her best attitude and positive and optimistic attitude, and herself is very close.
In terms of character shaping, Wan Qian extracted from herself what was in line with Yao Wei's personality, and then enlarged it. Wan Qian also borrowed a lot of friends around her in the performance, "Because I am basically surrounded by professional women, they are all very hard at work, and they are very cute people in life, I have absorbed a lot of details from them and filled these into Yao Wei." "During the filming of the TV series, Wan Qian still continued to draw inspiration and look for support points for character creation. Wan Qian remembered that a friend of the director came to visit the class, and she quickly found that the other party's feeling of catching horses was very similar to Yao Wei, so she pulled people to chat for a long time.
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In the play, Yao Wei became pregnant unexpectedly during the rising stage of her career and experienced a series of tests with her husband Cheng Liang (played by Bai Ke). This is the first time that Wan Qian and Bai Ke's cooperation has been, and the performance of the two is very tacit, allowing many audiences to feel the daily funny and healing of this model couple. Wan Qian told reporters that she and Baike have established trust since the first scene, and Baike's cold humorous performance has driven her understanding of light comedy, "Mr. Bai's kind of joy is unassuming, has its own rhythm, this rhythm will not limit the opponent's play, so his performance compatibility is very strong, I am quite grateful to Mr. Bai, because he gave me a lot of creative inspiration in comedy performance." ”
Wan Qian revealed that some of the small details of life in the play come from the improvisation of the actors. In the play, Yao Wei and Cheng Liang are emotionally stable couples, so it is necessary to express the sweet emotions of this little couple through many details, "There is a scene where Yao Wei brushes her teeth to kiss Cheng Liang and sticks a mouthful of toothpaste foam to Cheng Liang's mouth, these details are not in the script, but we feel that such details can better reflect the life state between the real couple." Wan Qian said that there are several scenes of husband and wife dialogue in the play that are chatting while soaking their feet, and the script originally showed the two standing and talking, but when filming, it was changed to chat while soaking their feet, "We want to be as close to life as possible and not miss every small detail." The couple soaks their feet in a small basin, such details can enrich the plot and character relationships, and increase the credibility of the characters. ”
Wan Qian also revealed that director Gao Han gave the actors a lot of creative space, allowing the actors to reasonably improve the roles and add details according to the character and plot development, and the actors would often collide with each other to support each other, "Every time after filming on the set, the director does not shout 'card', let us play freely on the scene." Judging from the feedback from the audience after the broadcast, our efforts were not in vain, everyone saw it, and we are very happy. ”
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At the beginning of the "Lady's Character" series, it seems that each line has the routine of a women's drama, but as the plot unfolds, it will be found that some old-fashioned bridges are more like "flaws" deliberately left by the screenwriter, and the subsequent plot direction will jump out of the audience's prejudgment.
Talking about the design of the script's anti-routine, Wan Qian said that when she got the script, she felt that it was a very good and mature script. In the play, An Xin, played by Liu Mintao, seems to come from a patriarchal native family as soon as he appears, and Wan Qian saw that many viewers on the Internet are saying that An Xin has a "blood-sucking family". Looking back, you will find that although An Xin's family looks unreasonable in the previous plot, when An Xin experiences marriage changes, it will support An Xin and become her strength. When An Xin was at her lowest, her father came out and said: Daughter, we are your home, we are your backing. This is what makes Wan Qian particularly moved by the script: there is a warm atmosphere, non-faceted characters, and the characters have a full story line.
Wan Qian believes that "Lady's Character" intuitively reflects the current situation of women's workplaces from some angles. As the company's commercial director, Yao Wei herself was once secretly married, and Bai Hui, the assistant she recruited, also chose to enter the company because she was afraid of workplace discrimination. In the play, when Bai Hui confessed, Yao Wei said a long line, and Wan Qian felt that she couldn't delete a word after seeing this line in the script, because she said the real situation of many working mothers, "Fortunately, the female characters in the play can bravely face problems and solve problems, and Bai Hui finally made a correct decision." ”
In "Lady's Character", Yao Wei and An Xin are each other's workplace competitors, but there are also women who help each other; Yao Wei puts pressure on her subordinate Liu Xiaoxi at work, and she also has a unique understanding and tolerance among women. In Wan Qian's view, the whole drama is linked and maintained by the emotions and character of ladies, and the play starts from the perspective of women, hoping that women's workplace status will be seen and paid attention to, hoping that there will be a better way to solve these problems.